Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

It's hard when you let people down.

I'm sorry for being me. I won't ever do it again.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

I let the American people down.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.